Law Guide: Secondary Resources
Find targeted resources for legal research
Legal dictionaries & encyclopedias
LexisNexis Australian legal dictionary
(Held in Townsville Library: call number: R 349.9403 BUT 2011)
Osborn's concise law dictionary
(Held in Townsville Library: call number: 340.03 OSB 2005)
Australian law dictionary (2017)
(Held in both Cairns and Townsville Libraries: call number: 349.9403 MAN 2013 and R 349.9403 MAN 2013)
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Westlaw AU (including FirstPoint)Westlaw AU provides full-text access to Australian primary legal materials including case law, statutes and reports, and unreported judgments from a number of jurisdictions.
Why can't I just Google?
Useful databases for finding secondary legal information
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Informit AGIS Plus TextAttorney General's Information Service. Covers all aspects of law and is produced by the AGIS Section of the Lionel Murphy Library, Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department in Canberra.
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Westlaw AUProvides full-text access to Australian primary legal materials - case law, statutes and reports including Commonwealth Law Reports, Federal Court Reports, Federal Law Reports, Australian Tax Reports, Australian Criminal Reports, Local Government and Environment Reports of Australia and unreported judgments from a number of jurisdictions.
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Lexis Advance PacificLexis Advance Pacific provides access to JCU library subscribed legal publications, including Carter's Criminal Law of Queensland, New South Wales Law Reports, and Queensland Reports.
Not available to community borrowers or walk-in users.
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Thomson Reuters WestlawThomson Reuters Westlaw (Formerly Westlaw International) provides full-text access to American and International primary law materials. Users can access United Kingdom full-text legal material through the International section.
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Lexis AdvanceIndexes more than 700 major mainly UK and US law journals, reports and newspapers, that cover the interpretation and analysis of laws, cases, statutes, legal trends, and law firm management. Indexing is from 1977 onwards. Does include some Australian content.
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